‘Such demands have nothing to do with sports’: Svishchev on Ukraine’s demands to abolish WSF

Requests from the Ukrainian side to withdraw the All-Russian Swimming Federation and the Belarusian Federation from work in the aquatic world have nothing to do with sports and constitute political pressure on the organization, the head of the Physical Culture Committee and state sports The Duma of the Russian Federation told Dmitry Svishchev .

On Friday, FSM President, member of the World Water Sports Bureau, Vladimir Salnikov, told that the Ukrainian side, during a meeting of the organization’s board, proposed to abolish FSM and the federation Belarusian, but this proposal was rejected.

— There is no good will here, it is a pragmatic decision of a serious organization. The Ukrainian side always “goes too far” in its demands, it cannot do otherwise, because its political leaders demand that any public organization ban everything that concerns Russia. This is a known strategy that has proven itself time and time again. And athletes, social activists and even representatives of Ukrainian art demand the abolition of Russia all over the world.

International organizations must make objective decisions, they do not have the right to exclude Russians and Belarusians from participating in competitions, but, unfortunately, they allow such decisions. Of course, this is illegal and politically motivated, this decision is made under enormous pressure from sponsors, pro-Western non-sporting organisations. Such demands from the Ukrainian side have nothing to do with sports, you should be attentive to such news,” Svishchev told .